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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: FDFORMAT
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Date: 1 Mar 90 23:15:10 GMT
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In article <3678@plains.UUCP>,
lodin@plains.UUCP (Joe Schmo) writes:
>
>I am looking for a program I believe was smitted in c.b.i.p. clled
>FDFORMAT.  It enabled disk drives to exceed their rated capacity
>by using either another track or another head.  An example is making a
>720K drive format a disk to 832K.  Well, anyway, I put it
>one one of it's one formatted disks and now my drive won't read it.
>And, of course, I can't find it on my backups...
>
I believe the latest version is in file FDFORM15.ARC, available
in directory pd:<msdos.dskutl> on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil.

Richard Stanton